CABBAGE. 67 



The seed should be sown about the middle of May in a 

 prepared bed, and in July the plants should be trans- 

 planted two feet each way in the permanent bed, or the 

 seeds may be sown in a hot-bed in March or April, and 

 the plants transplanted when three or four inches high, 

 which will bring them into use a month or six weeks 

 earlier than when sown in May. The after culture is the 

 same as that of cabbages. 



If the later planted plants should not head, they should 

 be taken up before severe freezing weather sets in, and 

 planted in a cellar, when they will afford a succession of 

 heads during the winter. 



The tall or giant variety is the hardiest, and produces 

 the largest number of heads. As this vegetable is apt to 

 revert back to its original type, and not to produce its 

 small heads unless great care is used in saving the seed, it 

 should only be purchased from seedsmen of known respect- 

 ability. 



CABBAGE, 



Cabbage requires a deep, fresh, loamy soil, and does not 

 succeed well in land that has been long under cultivation, 

 or that is very dry and sandy. 



The soil in which it is grown should be liberally manured, 

 especially for the early varieties, with good barn-yard 

 manure, and as it likes a limestone and saline soil, an ad- 

 dition of fine ground bone, and a top dressing of salt, will 

 be found advantageous, or manure prepared with the lime 

 and salt mixture as directed in the chapter on Manures. 

 Wood ashes are also useful. 



There are two or three ways of raising the early sorts. 

 The first mode is to sow the seeds in an open-air prepared 



